LiveBlog for Friday, September 4, 2009

Just tried to post a comment on Joe Wilson's web page. It's "DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE". What a laugh.

Hey, Shaf and anyone else who remembers me! How's it going? :)

Hal does a great job IMO. However, he's not Steph and the Mooks. No one else is..

Manana, Bananas!

Oh, it's labor day. I forget that other people don't have to work today.

Hey, what's the deal? A rerun show and no clean sandbox? Did someone not make it back from vacation? Something happen with the fires?

omg, hal sparks was soooooo boring. i listen to the show for the same reason i watch daily show - i need my news with my laughs. also, i like to wake up laughing. hal, ya gotta mix it up!

The interview with the 9-11 commission writer only made me feel more insecure that 9-11 was allowed to happen.
"Mistakes were made" is a ridiculous posture. They had memos! Planes were never scrambled.
I am eagerly awaiting evidence that tells me THEY really had no idea that this was going to happen.

Afterthought:

#105: "102: beck — beck hanson — hanson — androgynous musician — young mick jagger — hmmm “mick” racial slur. so glenn beck is a racist."

Hmmm, those links look a little tenuous. Should have gone via Bowie!

I think beck only sees the dark skin of Obama and considers him black (to a racist, a single drop of black blood constitutes membership in the black race). He thinks Obama considers people of color to be superior to white people. There is no rational reason for this belief, but it is not the sort of thinking that is vulnerable to rational discussion. He hates Obama because he is dark skinned and has a status that is higher than his own (just as in many Arab nations Jews were not allowed to ride on burros or horses, because that would place them physically higher and therefore superior to arabs who were not on horseback or riding burros). Because his rational brain requires a rationalization for his hatred, he will take any negative stereotype and retroactively attach it to Obama's behavior and motives. Therefore, there is no contradiction in a brain like Beck's in calling him both a communist and a nazi because he hates communists and hates a concept he has in mind of a nazi, so clearly those epithets can be safely applied to Obama. If he hated spiders and snakes, Obama would take on spiderlike and snakelike attributes. If he was lactose intolerant, Obama would be like a big banana smoothie.

Have a great weekend, everyone! Fantastic week, Hal, thanks!

Cheers!

Have a great weekend everybody, and remember: It's all fun and games till somebody gets a pinkie bitten off (and has to go to the socialist emergency room).

- SPAR?

#181 Amy, Excellent point! (I'm picturing the Nazi-helmeted Franz Liebkind, the script-writer in the Producers, saying, Das is not my Fuhrer! Der Fuhrer never said "Baby!")

Thanks, Hal! Leave a super-size set of headphones for Jim when he comes back.

Thanks, Hal! It's been a great week with you.

Have an awesome Labor Day weekend, everyone!

thanks, Hal. You were great. And thanks for keeping the spirit of Rollins among us--he's absolutely one of a kind.

183. Yeah, I'd like to see the Nazi's show up and confront the pretenders. That would be fun to watch. :-D

I mean, :-o

On Glenn Beck calling Obama a racist, I've always wondered, how does Obama do it? Does he hate white people and then black people on alternate days, like the NYC parking schedule? "Cause he's half black and half white. :-O

#181 I'm still waiting for the Nazi outrage. There are lots of proud Aryan racists in this country, why aren't they pissed at the right wing equating a black man with Hitler?

So true, Henry! With great power, comes great responsibility.

Wait, wasn't that the theme of Spider-Man?

and there was a skinny little hater who tried to disrupt the speakers by playing an accordian and shouting "seig heil"

#175 Stupid comapny blocks youtube.
I think you meant Marilyn Monroe, not Manson. Brian Warner (aka Marilyn Manson) wasn't born until after Jack and Bobby had been killed.

Henry Rollins!

Has a show on KCRW every Saturday at 6pm Pacific.

Morning all! I went to a pro health-insurance reform rally in Seattle yesterday. One thing I want to suggest is BRING A MEGAPHONE. The anti-reform tiny contingent had one and it made it very easy for them to get their spew out.

175 was intended to address 174

I think Marilyn was eager to meet Jack and what heterosexual male wouldn't at least want to meet Marilyn Monroe? And if she came onto him, well it's just impolite to say no to a woman. Marlena Dietrich writes in her memoirs about her meeting with Jack. No words were spoken, practically. She was waiting for him. He came in. They kissed, even though they had never met before. On their way to the bedroom, he asked her if she'd ever had sex with Joe, his father. She said she hadn't. That was about it. Clearly she arrived with a purpose in mind. And, of course, it would have been impolite not to give it to her. Do you think Richard Nixon ever had sex? Was he celibate his entire life because he was impolite to the many women who came onto him or because he had a face like a badly made pair of wingtip broughams?

170: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfQtfw8U06g

#170 Marilyn Manson? So the Kennedys had a time machine too?

... from "some like it hot", to "the wonder years" to "happy birthday mister president", truly a consumate performer.

Love John Fugelsang!

universal healthcare could lead to government-sponsorded day care. It's a slippery slope. Someday, our children might be cared for by trained professionals, have high self esteem, very little energy wasted on rebelling against parents, healthy, smart, and eager to make a better world for THEIR children. So we need to nip that in the bud.

166: yeah, those affairs with marilyn manson probably were pretty risky too.

Members of the Religious Right should (re)read Mark 25:34-46 and give special attention to verse 40: “... whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me”. The lesson to be gained from this passage is that we all are children of God so we all are brothers and sisters of Christ and, as such, we must treat each other as such if we expect to receive redemption. Many philosophers, both religious and secular, have said the same thing, many times and in many different ways.

How hypocritical that the self-proclaimed Moral Majority labels those who endeavor to improve the condition of the least of our brethren as Godless Liberals while they worship at the purse of the moneychangers who have turned the health care industry into a den of thieves. For the Family Values crowd, the Golden Rule has become the rule of gold. They are oblivious to the precept that God will know who has followed in the Light of Christ, not by the quantity of their prayers, but by the quality of their acts.

I think Jesus would probably turn his back on a pharisee. When a wealthy man asked him for salvation, Jesus said to give his money to the poor and "follow me." The man couldn't do it and Jesus wasted no more time on him.

164: dont forget to knit 1 and purl 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oWc6SUkU4Q&fea...

all my life kennedys were skiing into trees and skydiving and sailing. I admired them, but there was a clear attraction to difficult and dangerous things in the Kennedy dna

To whom would Jesus deny healthcare?

The best quick indoctrination is a through-the-eyesocket lobotomy.

hal, ever since you showed up on talk soup, you've always been a welcome guest in my life and it's really great of steph to have you on the air.

always a joy.

#75: Not much indoctrinatin' can be done in 20 minutes. Believe me, I've tried.

159: whistle andy griffith and it will go away.

#154 Spiffy, Not in any way to blame the Kennedys' ill fortune on them alone, they were wealthy enough to have access to civil aviation in its early days (Kick) and tempermentally inclined to push the envelope anyway, to take risks to demonstrate their courage at a time when the guidelines for safety were not at all well established to start with, so it's not as surprising in some ways....

holy crap...that song has been stuck in my head all week!!!

#79: Republican rebuttal to presidential speech: "Whatever he said, ferget it!"

I have to go. I could just stay here blogging at y'all all day. Have a nice weekend and pay the bills!

i still love that Levi is totally spilling the beans about Palin...HA!

147: who's the wiseguy who told george will and sarah palin that they're ready to rise above sports talk. down, you mongrels. first, you must master sports talk, and then you can elevate your blather to other forums - just like rush limbaugh.

139: "what, to the slave, is your war in the gulf ?" - fred engels

144----But even though Joe Jr's ego got him to volunteer for the mission, it is still the beginning of some very odd coincidences.

And you will notice that the media, sometimes controlled by the opposition, started the Fairy Tale of the star-crossed family to explain the continued "coincidences".

132: good point. there are crossovers, but there are also non-crossovers in the MOST prevalent organs effective. - fortunately, bluetooth will be providing huge amounts of specific data about very specific types of brain cancer caused by magnetic plumes.